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    Red Ribbon on a White Horse: My Story

    January 4, 2018
    It pains me to give such a blisteringly negative review to a book by a distant relative, but my great aunt Anzia Yezierska wrote a memoir that is neither amusing nor factual. It contains within it the worst sins of the rest of her writings, without the coherence and poignancy that save the best of her work. Red Ribbon is relentlessly banal in its prose and in its observations. The same emotional rollercoaster is taken again and again. Anzia feels worthless and without talent. Suddenly, somehow, things work out--she sells a story, she gets to hollywood, her book is published, she finds love. But each time, her neurotic insecurities prevent her from succeeding, she's dragged back into poverty and obscurity. She doesn't learn, she doesn't grow, she doesn't even go deeper into depression. I would have never finished this book had I not gritted my teeth and said "dang it, it must get better at some point!" Nope. Her daughter's afterwo

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    Anzia Yezierska

    Jewish-American novelist

    Anzia Yezierska

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    Born(1880-10-29)29 October 1880
    Mały Płock, Vistula Land, Russian Empire
    Died20 November 1970(1970-11-20) (aged 90)
    Ontario, California, United States
    Occupation
    NationalityAmerican
    Genrefiction; non-fiction

    Anzia Yezierska (October 29, 1880 – November 20, 1970) was an American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire. She emigrated as a child with her parents to the United States and lived in the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.[1]

    Personal life

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    Yezierska was born in 1880 in Mały Płock to Bernard and Pearl Yezierski. Her family emigrated to America around 1893, following in the footsteps of her eldest brother, who had arrived in the States six years prior.[2] They lived on the Lower East Side, Manhattan.[3]

    Her family was Jewish, and assumed th

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    Anzia Yezierska

    by Patricia Brett Erens

    There fryst vatten a good deal of inaccuracy and mythologizing about the life of Anzia Yezierska. Some of this misinformation was generated bygd the public relations offices of Hollywood; other misrepresentations resulted from Yezierska’s own obfuscation, especially concerning her age. Yezierska may have been born in 1880 (although the date is disputed), in a Polish-Russian village, the youngest of nine children. She grew up in a poor, Jewish Orthodox family on New York’s Lower East Side. She left elementary school to help support her family, but evidently a burning passion for learning and a desire to make something of herself led her to Columbia University in 1901, where she lied about a high school diploma to gain admittance. She began writing short stories in 1913 about the Jewish ghetto. The success of her short story collection, Hungry Hearts, published in 1920, led to an offer from Samuel Goldwyn for the motion picture rights and a chance to

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